From the back cover: Before Prime Minister Thatcher exposed him in the House of Commons in 1979, elegant, aloof, dictatorial, brillant, communist, homosexual Sir Anthony Blunt had been a world-class art historian, successor to Kenneth Clark as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures. Here is the story of Blunt's life, but also the story of why he received immunity and why Britain waited so long to expose him and the entire murky world of espionage.

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